BenefitsXML Provides Innovative Data Exchange Service To OnlineBenefits - Collaboration Provides HR-XML Data Exchange for Employee Benefits Administration Service Providers.GLASTONBURY, Conn. -- BenefitsXML, a leading provider of e-benefit and HR-XML HR-XML Human Resources eXtensible Markup Language enabling technology solutions, announced that OnlineBenefits has become a channel partner for BenefitsXML's new BenefiX(TM) service - a data exchange hub for transmitting information to employee benefit plan providers and payroll companies. The BenefiX service allows OnlineBenefits to transmit enrollment specifications in a single HR-XML format to BenefitsXML where the BenefiX service translates, transforms and routes that data into the health and welfare carriers' proprietary formats. "OnlineBenefits is very pleased with the results of the BenefiX implementation," said Alan Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of OnlineBenefits. "Moving our benefits administration data feeds from Benergy to the HR-XML industry standard and utilizing the BenefiX service has increased our focus on customer-facing activities and lowered the cost of operations. It's clearly improving the timeliness and accuracy of data for our clients and their carriers." "With its vast library of carrier translation adaptors, the BenefiX service will accelerate new client and carrier implementation as well as ease OnlineBenefits' administrative workload," states David Donahue, CEO of BenefitsXML. "The BenefiX service is now available to other benefits administration and HR outsourcing companies List of Outsourcing Firms<ref name="who" /> Revenue (USD) Logo Company Headquarters Country of Largest Employment Service $3300 million as well as large employers who want an economical, secure and scalable solution to outsource their carrier and payroll data exchange." "The ultimate goal of the HR-XML Consortium is to have all participants in the HR value chain natively exchange the HR-XML standard specifications," states Chuck Allen Charles R. Allen (born September 7, 1939 in Cle Elum, Washington) is a former American collegiate and professional football player. He was a linebacker who played for the American Football League's San Diego Chargers, and the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, and Philadelphia Eagles. , Executive Director of the HR-XML Consortium. "An HR-XML-based data exchange hub, like BenefitsXML's BenefiX service, is a very important step towards wide-spread acceptance. HR-XML is pleased to have innovators such as BenefitsXML among its member companies." About BenefitsXML BenefitsXML is a leading provider of HR-XML and e-benefit enabling technology solutions and consulting services for employee benefit service providers including group insurance brokerages, TPAs, health and welfare carriers, and HR Outsourcing firms. Founded in 2000, BenefitsXML has worked with some of the largest HR, payroll and benefits administration companies in the business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in (BPO BPO Business Process Outsourcing BPO Benevolent & Protective Order (of Elks of the USA) BPO Benzoyl Peroxide BPO Business Process Optimization BPO Broker Price Opinions BPO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra ) industry. About OnlineBenefits OnlineBenefits, Inc. is the HR solutions company behind the well-known Benergy(TM) family of communication, administration and intelligence products. Its market-proven solutions enrich the benefits and HR experience for employers, employees and brokers in innovative, cost-effective ways. The company designs, implements and hosts its award-winning Internet-based applications and distributes them in partnership through its network of over 400 of the nation's leading brokers and consultants. About The HR-XML Consortium The HR-XML Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to the development and promotion of a standard suite of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. specifications to enable ebusiness and the automation of human resources-related data exchanges. |
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